Why YSK: consuming too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke. In my country (USA), the average daily sodium intake is over 3,300mg, exceeding the recommended maximum of 2,300mg. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an even lower maximum of 2,000mg.

Also: with the rising cost of food, being mindful of additives that increase sell weight is important.

I guess i can cut back to four chickens a day

Here is a short that tells of what's going here. This short is also a reaction, from an independent farmer who farms chickens. I think the creator here, FarmingWhileBeige, offers a lot of good insight into what is bad and not bad in our current farming practices as a level headed not batshit crazy maga person.

This makes the chicken taste better too.

So is this dick but I still get called small peen.

LOL, sarcasm ... right ? right ... ?

Happy 2nd cake day James 🎂🍻 !

Is this legal in the EU?

Does this also work on cocks?

Here in the EU, I just looked at some packed chicken. It's marinated, but still: the ingredients say it contains only 87% actual chicken meat, then water, then salt. 13% marinade seems a bit much. It's not swimming in sauce. Not sure if it's been plumped too.

It's a truism that all sorts of industrially produced & packaged meat shrink when you cook/fry it.

It would be interesting to know what the leagl situation is around here. I checked wikipedia and it refers only to the USA.

Also, at least in my area, I believe there is a mislabeling scam going on. At least twice now I have bought boneless skinless chicken thighs from 2 different grocery stores (different chains) and the weight has been like ~15% lower than advertized.

Like a package of chicken thighs labeled at 3.11lbs (1.4kg) actually weighed roughly 2.67lbs (1.2kg), 14% less. One labeled at 2.49lbs (1.13kg) actually weighed roughly 2.1lbs (0.95kg), 16% less.

Some of that may be accounted for by the absorbant pad sucking out some of that excess liquid they pump in, but it shouldn't be so radically different

I'm sorry you had to learn it so late in life but, salt makes food tasty. You should try some next time.

I've always assumed the "mildly salted" chicken is just that.

This is why you want to look for "air-chilled" when it comes to chickens. Aside from paying more for a higher sodium product, you'll get better browning on your meat with air-chilled.

True, but you can salt or brine the chicken yourself instead of paying more for it.

Okay so, since we are being serious : my taste preferences are :
1- adding salt, but also,
2- reducing the amount of water.

I wouldn't be surprised if that person never actually ate UNbrind chicken plain in their life, and would be shocked at how bland some chicken can taste

You can weigh it with the pad to check

Eh, in my experience this chicken has a weird texture so not really

Apparently that's a current scandal.

Common with red meat also.

That and I recently purchased frozen chicken breasts from Costco. They were huge and once thawed and cooked they were still larger and had more weight than a usual store brand chicken breast.

Chris also explains the chlorinated chicken myth and daily unpacks MAHA bullshit about food.

Meat has a water content, and water is lost by evaporation between the packagers and the person who brings it home.
If you care about this, buy from a butcher who weighs at the time of sale.

Or, wash your chicken and watch the weight magically increase.

This is another Tiktok "scandal".

The salt helps prevent bacterial growth.

Yes

Yes, both hens and cockerels.

Just stop eating meat. I did that 15 years ago. Meat is unhealthy, bad for the climate, bad for the people working in the slaughterhouses… and most of all bad for the animal.

It's not just meat though. And sometimes they are way off to the point it is definitely not within reason. A good one seen was the prepackaged mini hams that are airtight. They were weighed and basically 30% off or more from the label the store slapped on them.

Yes but it has to say so on the packaging.

yeah this was the first thing we switched over I think grocery wise. Basically your paying for water and the organic is better if its up to 2x the price.

Yeah, like I said I'm not certain. And I have since seen random people circulating this on various social media, but I noticed it myself first. At 15%, it could just be water loss, but also it could be something more than that. Mainly it's just an annoyance.

chicken breast

ingredients: 86,7 % chicken

interesting thank you

Covers up the taste of chlorine

And here's the short in a normal video format

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-pWGLG4eaY

I've seen people getting upset about this. I'm only upset because I have kidney issues and have to watch my sodium and meat really fucks me when it comes to sodium content.

Do you have a link to an actual source that's not just a person talking in their car?

You'd have to know the dry weight of the pad to do that.

It's basically just pre-brining them. And the label discloses the added salt water.

You want dry chicken?

Also true, but salting it leaves a much dryer, crappier chicken. Brining one works great, but I'd much rather get one already brined vs having to brine one myself like 6 hours before I want to start cooking it. That's a lot of time and a lot of salt I'll only use once before dumping.

The water and salt is absorbed and held inside the chicken meat. That's why it is 13% and not swimming in sauce.

Brining meat causes the meat itself to swell and take in extra moisture\salt. It's why brined meats are more tender and less dry after cooking.

Salting only draws moisture out of the outermost layer of skin and meat, which improves browning and crisping. It won't affect the interior. The best way to reduce moisture loss in the meat is to spatchcock it so it cooks faster and more evenly.

We've had ongoing issues here with places including the weight of the packaging. Not as bad as what you've encountered as a % difference, but also not allowed.

So just the same as adding water to milk

Why is this even legal?

Again, if you believe every "scandal" on tiktok and YouTube...people fake this shit.

Chicken is not chlorinated, that's more MAHA bullshit.

The technical term for that is turkey.